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Location: 31 lengths farms | Even better, how many of them have actually been weighed???? My gelding who is 15.3 has been on the scale at the vets, weighed 1380 and the vet says "he needs to lose a good 100lbs and I had to agree. |
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  That's White "Man" to You
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| We had a good friends horse go through the sale barn...they were sure she weighed 1500 lbs. on the sale barn scale she was only 1200. |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | I have had 3 "15.3hh" horses and all were different heights.  Height is very important to me. 15.1 is about the smallest I can stand. That's tiny for me.
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 Georgia Peach
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This is such a funny topic. I know how tall all my horses are. I measure my yearling once a month and the others get measured a few times a year, even the 20 year old. At this point im just seeing if he will get shorter lol. He is a BIG boy and most people think he is 16+ hands but on a stick he is only 15.2. I think the wider they are, the bigger they look to people. I have unofficially weighed him at #125o but I've never put him on an actual scale. My other three are shortys - all under 15 hands. Hoping the yearling will break that trend! |
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | EqualRanch - 2015-04-08 2:43 PM Me too!!!! 
Me three! LOL. |
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | TurnLane - 2015-04-08 3:44 PM rodeowithjoker - 2015-04-08 11:40 AM I know TurnLane can measure because the 16 hand horse I went to pick up from her is exactly 16 hands. I thought oh yeah sure, he'll be 15.2 which is big but not elephant size. Lo and behold, Streak is a legit 16 hands. That'll teach me to figure that everyone overstates their horse's height. LOL. Thanks! Funny you say that, I totally forgot. But I do know it takes a BIG horse to be 16 hands and weigh 1500#. People use that as a base line all the time- cracks me up!! I think I am a good eye-baller but I do have a stick and I weigh them everytime we are at the vets just to keep record of weight. I see Ol Streak made your fav pics on the other thread too! 
He is such a sweetheart! My whole family just loves him. Not sure if you saw the Facebook video my sister-in-law posted of her nephew riding him Monday but it was cute. Nephew is taking some riding lessons and doing cheap fun shows so they brought him out & my brother gave him a barrel racing "lesson" on Streak while I was at work. Streak walked & trotted and waited for the cues to finish turns so the boy really had to be a driver not a passenger, which was exactly what I think he needed. Rachel says Streak may now think its OK to walk and trot the pattern, but I think he is just practicing for the day he can be a pee wee horse. |
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Location: somewhere up north | SaraJean - 2015-04-08 11:32 AM I measure all of mine & have people argue with me that they're way taller than i say all the time!
Ditto! Here too. I have yet to buy a horse that was actually the height someone told me. They are ALWAYS shorter. Then we had a paint gelding that is tall. I had someone try to tell me at a barrel race that her gelding was 15.3. I said no way, that Paint is 15.3 and he's much taller than your horse. She says he can't be..he has to be at least 16.1. ha, ha. Ah, no. I measured him and he's 15.3. Drives me nutts! |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | My uncle swore the gelding I have from him was 17hh. He's 15.3. He's just MUCH taller than all the 14.2-14.1 hh mares he has. |
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 Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Personally from a broodmare buying standpoint I could care less as long as they are 15-16.2. I can usually tell a 14 hand horse in the picture and also a great big tall mare. Try shopping in the Hunter world where 2 inches can raise the price of the horse $5000. They are getting to anything 16.3 and under is hard to sell.
I agree that most over guess height and weight kills me. I would normally bet the ranch your 1500 horse is more like 1250 and those 1250 are 950. I lived in a town where they had a feed store and I could ride over to their weigh station. It was a lot of fun to accurately weigh all the horses. |
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Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | cloverleaf - 2015-04-08 2:50 PM oija - 2015-04-08 11:09 AM Actually I'm usually a pretty good guesser. I do stick them or use a tape on them some, but I'm generally with .5" to 1" guessing. I've known for a while my 3 year old was around 14.3. I measured her 14.3 on the money a couple months ago with a stick. I learned a long time ago that the bottom of my chin is right at 15 hh. I go from there. That's actually called "chinning a horse." The old-time traders used to do it- my dad was good at it, back in the day. He stood 5'5", so he'd have trouble with today's 17 hand horses! I can chin one pretty accurately up to 15.2, but then, I like shorter (14.2-15 hands ) horses, especially now that I'm getting long in the tooth.
that means I would be able to chin ponies. I'm just a tad over 5 foot lol |
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